Isaiah 3:1–15 (ESV)

Loss

1: For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water;

2: the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

3: the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms.

4: And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

Disruption

5: And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

6: For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule”;

7: in that day he will speak out, saying: “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people.”

Shame

8: For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

9: For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

10: Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11: Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

12: My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Judgement

13: The Lord has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples.

14: The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: “It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15: What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” declares the Lord God of hosts.